May 14th, 2022: Greetings from Austin! Today I’m sharing a bunch of updates on the newsletter, my seventh-week sabbatical experiments, a “board” I recently appointed, my podcast re-launch, and some work thoughts as always. The success of my book has been exciting and it’s been a good confirmation that people want to hear stories and ideas relating to carving new paths in the world. Although I haven’t been able to support us financially doing this, I want to make sure that I can continue to work on these things over the long-term because I think they matter.
Looks like you and I are on the same 7th-week rest cycle, Paul. In my rest edition this week I quoted Ozan Varol. In terms of outlier-cluster-trend, this invitation to plan in a reflect and rest break is definitely gaining traction. Congratulations on the book sales!
Enjoyed the ideas of a Personal Board. I realized I sort of do that with a bunch of people via phone calls, but it's a cool idea to level that up to a more formal structure.
Also I filled out the survey—I like how you set that up! Gonna follow your example as I need to send out a survey to my newsletter too.
The circle of support among professionals has some great examples and long history. The one that works exceptionally well is the circle of 12 key professionals necessary for success. The book, the course, the years of examples for this are by Janine Garner, author of It's Who You Know: How a network of 12 key people can fast-track your success. Having learned and done this now for several years I can tell you the power of this is in the clear definitions, roles, responsibilities of the 12--and very clear definition of my equal commitment to each of them.
Your Board of Thoughtful Humans is a step in this direction. My interest in your board would be totally through the experience of having learned what works when taking on the responsibility of Thought Partner. It's not about YOUR projects or mentoring you or editing your stuff. It's much more important and about the weekly, monthly or quarterly conversations, depending on the role of key person, and the assured investment in each other's time criteria, e.g., deadlines, ROI, productivity scores.
Looks like you and I are on the same 7th-week rest cycle, Paul. In my rest edition this week I quoted Ozan Varol. In terms of outlier-cluster-trend, this invitation to plan in a reflect and rest break is definitely gaining traction. Congratulations on the book sales!
Enjoyed the ideas of a Personal Board. I realized I sort of do that with a bunch of people via phone calls, but it's a cool idea to level that up to a more formal structure.
Also I filled out the survey—I like how you set that up! Gonna follow your example as I need to send out a survey to my newsletter too.
Thanks as always for sharing your thinking!
The circle of support among professionals has some great examples and long history. The one that works exceptionally well is the circle of 12 key professionals necessary for success. The book, the course, the years of examples for this are by Janine Garner, author of It's Who You Know: How a network of 12 key people can fast-track your success. Having learned and done this now for several years I can tell you the power of this is in the clear definitions, roles, responsibilities of the 12--and very clear definition of my equal commitment to each of them.
Your Board of Thoughtful Humans is a step in this direction. My interest in your board would be totally through the experience of having learned what works when taking on the responsibility of Thought Partner. It's not about YOUR projects or mentoring you or editing your stuff. It's much more important and about the weekly, monthly or quarterly conversations, depending on the role of key person, and the assured investment in each other's time criteria, e.g., deadlines, ROI, productivity scores.